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Post by Zat Thu 28 May 2009, 22:51

And cricket takes another step towards becoming baseball Mongoosecricketbat_narrowweb__300x588,0 And cricket takes another step towards becoming baseball P171925dt

The SMH wrote:the Mongoose bat, with a handle as long as the blade, is not even the craziest design the Marylebone Cricket Club - the game's lawmakers - have been presented this past year as Twenty20 spawns a new wave of invention.

The MCC has already rejected dozens of submissions, including one bat with holes drilled into the blade for aerodynamic purposes, described by observers as a "Swiss cheese bat".

But they passed this one, used for the first time by former Australian batsman Stuart Law during a county Twenty20 match on Tuesday night.
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On the plus side, it gives Aussies another reason to dislike Stuart Law.

But if the trend started by 'the Mongoose' continues, how long before someone comes out with something looking even more like a baseall bat? Cricket authorities may as well decide that chucking the ball is all right...


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Post by doremi Thu 28 May 2009, 22:53

I'd hate to bat with those. My grip was very low.
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Post by Basil Thu 28 May 2009, 23:27

I think the Mongoose will go the same way as the Aluminium bat. When Law used the bat earlier this week, he started with a conventional bat before switching to the Mongoose halfway through his innings.
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Post by JKLever Fri 29 May 2009, 00:40

Yup, ridiculous it's like someone asking for a 9 iron.
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Post by skully Fri 29 May 2009, 01:25

Stuart Law always was a qunt.
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Post by G.Wood Fri 29 May 2009, 01:27

On the plus side, he'll be able to shove the bat a long way up his arse
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Post by Bradman Fri 29 May 2009, 02:47

Was it Clive Lloyd who had a shoulderless bat?
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Post by embee Fri 29 May 2009, 02:48

Not sure if Clive had one ...but Lance Cairns did
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Post by horace Fri 29 May 2009, 03:16

slaw should have made the wouldn't p!!s on if on fire XI...he could have captained and coached that team...doubt there has ever been a cricketer more loathed by his peers let alone the public
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Post by Bradman Fri 29 May 2009, 05:17

And you think we've got chips on our shoulders. Get over it he didn't break the rules.
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Post by horace Fri 29 May 2009, 05:22

did i say he did????...no ... slaw is simply disliked by the many esp in BillVille...he should have been a Worst Aussie or a pomgolian
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Post by Bradman Fri 29 May 2009, 05:47

Just trying to get a rise yeast boy.
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Post by horace Fri 29 May 2009, 05:49

needs more than yeast for a bloke of my advanced years!!!
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Post by Bradman Fri 29 May 2009, 05:54

Roll the yeast into tiny balss and paint them blue.

It may trick your mind.
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Post by horace Fri 29 May 2009, 06:25

my mind is perfectly capable of playing its own tricks
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Post by Basil Fri 29 May 2009, 07:01

Bradman wrote:Was it Clive Lloyd who had a shoulderless bat?

Dunno about LLoyd, but Slazenger used to have a bat with cut away shoulders, which Kapil Dev used briefly IIRC.
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Post by tac Fri 29 May 2009, 07:49

excalibur, wasn't it?
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Post by PeterCS Fri 29 May 2009, 10:59

So Law stepped up to the plate.

Doesn't he know that is Cozzy's role?
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Post by KidSamson Fri 29 May 2009, 12:28

Regarding the thread title, I actually wish cricket had the same respect for its history that baseball does. I mean just look at the two bats you posted there, which one of them doesnt have incredibly ugly graphics and colours all over it, and isnt named after a friggin rodent.

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Post by Bradman Fri 29 May 2009, 12:31

Which one is less likely to be corked?
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Post by PeterCS Fri 29 May 2009, 15:34

I think you can be too much in awe of tradition. Cricket doesn't have a golden age.

Clearly the bat is a gimmick, in keeping with the giggliness of T20.

You can't stick your finger in the dyke of history, if that is what the people want. You don't have to like it, admittedly. But the history of cricket is also the history of people with wrinkled noses, fantasising about a purer age.
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Post by furriner Fri 29 May 2009, 18:58

Damn, someone might end up breaking their wrists on that there bat, especially when mistiming a flick.
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Post by Basil Fri 29 May 2009, 19:10

tac wrote:excalibur, wasn't it?

That might have been the Newberry bat Cairns used. Anyway, it was a gimmick, which did not last long. The Mongoose will go the same way I expect.

Talking of gimmicks, Fearnley once marketed a bat with little holes drilled right through the blade. The idea was that air would flow through the holes and not round the blade - thus increasing bat speed and making the pick-up lighter - that was the theory anyway.
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Post by LeFromage Fri 29 May 2009, 19:14

Did it smash into a million pieces when you middled one?
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Post by Basil Fri 29 May 2009, 19:18

Dello wrote:Did it smash into a million pieces when you middled one?

IIRC, they were very small holes. Don't remember them ever being used at F/C level. Come to think of it, I don't remember anyone using one during my playing days.
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